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Remember when everyone was obsessed with gold? Well, copper is having its main character moment, and honestly, it's about time. While everyone's been arguing about Bitcoin and AI taking over the world, they missed the plot twist: AI actually needs a lot of copper to function. Like, embarrassingly large amounts. Here's the deal: We're staring down a massive copper shortage that makes toilet paper hoarding look reasonable. Global demand could jump 50% to 42 million metric tons by 2040, but production ...
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Remember when everyone was obsessed with Japanese everything in the '80s? Well, Japan's stock market is having its own throwback moment – except this time, it's actually making people money. The Nikkei 225 just smashed through 57,000 like it was made of paper, up 15% this year alone. That's the kind of performance that makes your boring S&P 500 index fund look like it's taking a nap. So what's driving this sudden love affair with Japanese stocks? It's not just one thing ...
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Remember last week when software stocks got absolutely demolished? Yeah, well, the retail trading crowd just said "hold my energy drink" and dove right back in. JPMorgan just dropped some fascinating data on what exactly these dip-buyers have been up to, and honestly, it's kind of impressive. Here's the tea: After software stocks crashed harder than a Windows 95 computer, retail traders initially did what any sane person would do—they backed away slowly. Buying activity hit rock bottom on February 5th ...
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Thursday was a bloodbath for tech, and the Magnificent Seven took the worst of it. The Nasdaq dropped 2%, the S&P 500 fell 1.6%, and the Dow shed 670 points. But the real headline was Apple, which cratered 5% in its worst single-session performance since April. The damage was broad-based. All seven of the Mag Seven stocks closed red. AppLovin collapsed 20% after earnings disappointed. Cisco, which we covered yesterday after its "beat-and-drop" earnings report, got hammered another 12%. Restaurant Brands ...
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Everyone's obsessed with Nvidia, Microsoft, and the usual AI suspects. But some of the best plays in the AI boom aren't building the chips or training the models — they're the companies that become more valuable as AI goes mainstream. And right now, three names stand out. Automatic Data Processing (ADP) processes payroll for roughly one in six U.S. workers. It's not sexy. It's not going to make headlines at CES. But payroll is one of those deeply regulated, compliance-heavy tasks ...
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January's jobs report dropped like a gift from the labor market gods: 130,000 new positions, unemployment ticking down to 4.3%, and wages climbing at a respectable 3.7% annual clip. On the surface, it's hard to complain. But here's the part that didn't make the headline: the Bureau of Labor Statistics quietly revised 2025's entire payroll count — and wiped out nearly 900,000 jobs that never actually existed. Total job growth last year? Not 584,000. Try 181,000. That's a gut punch to ...
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So here's a fun Friday story: while most of us were probably thinking about weekend plans, Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) decided to absolutely lose its mind and rocket up 28% in a single day. And honestly? It makes total sense once you dig into what happened. Let's back up. Applied Digital is basically the landlord for AI companies – they build and operate the massive data centers that power all those ChatGPT conversations and AI image generators we're all obsessed with ...
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Picture this: You're so good at your job that you make your company a billion dollars in a single year. Your boss gives you a nine-figure bonus (yes, that's $100+ million). You're basically the Michael Jordan of natural gas trading. Then you lose $6.6 billion and accidentally destroy one of the world's biggest hedge funds. Meet Brian Hunter – the guy who proved that being really, really right can sometimes make you catastrophically wrong. The Farm Boy Who Conquered Wall Street (Almost) Hunter wasn't ...
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